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Michael Hutchinson is a writer, a journalist, and a former professional cyclist. He has won multiple national titles in both Britain and Ireland, and has raced at the World Championships and the Commonwealth Games. He is Cycling Weekly's principle columnist, and is a regular broadcaster on cycling. Re:Cyclists is the follow-up to his critically acclaimed book Faster: The Obsession, Science and Luck behind the World's Fastest Cyclists and the award-winning The Hour: Sporting Immortality the Hard Way. He lives with far too many bicycles in Cambridgeshire and London.
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As witty, accurate and eloquently written a history of the bicycle as you are ever likely to read
- Chris Boardman,
An essential look at how cycling has taken over the world
- Sir Chris Hoy,
As if Bill Bryson had taken to two wheels
FT
A thorough and fascinating read, as you would expect from Dr Hutch. It charts the strange evolution of what we now unthinkingly accept: cycling is cool. How it came to be is another story altogether.
- Ned Boulting,
An excellent history of the two-wheeled machine … Hutchinson plots his way through the physical, social and sporting history of cycling with immense pleasure, pace and humour.
Daily Express
Michael Hutchinson will already be known to many for his entertaining and humorous writing, and this book carries on in the same vein
road.cc
Michael Hutchinson has written a funny book about what could be – and often is – dry-as-sticks: the history of the bicycle.
bikebiz.com
<i>Re:Cyclists</i> is an enjoyable romp through Britain's cycling history ... If you want to know how the British got from the hobby-horse to hipsters on fixies, this is as good a place as any to start finding the answers.
Podiumcafe
Whether you’re a city boy banker racing into the Square Mile or a hipster wheeling around Shoreditch, this is for you.
Gentleman’s Journal
An historical and fascinating account of the last 200 years of the progression of cycling … A well-written and intelligent read.
Outdoor Fitness
‘As if Bill Bryson had taken to two wheels’ - FT
Somewhere in a German forest 200 years ago, during the darkest, wettest summer for centuries, the story of cycling began. The calls to ban it were more or less immediate.
Re:Cyclists is the tale of the following two centuries. It tells how cycling became a kinky vaudeville act for Parisians, how it was the basis of an American business empire to rival Henry Ford's, and how it found a unique home in the British Isles.
The Victorian love of cycling started with penny-farthing riders, who explored lonely roads that had been left abandoned by the coming of the railways. Then high-society took to it - in the 1980s the glittering parties of the London Season featured bicycles dancing in the ballroom, and every member of the House of Lords rode a bike.
Twentieth-century cycling was very different, and even more popular. It became the sport and the pastime of millions of ordinary people who wanted to escape the city smog, or to experience the excitement of a weekend's racing. Cycling offered adventure and independence in the good times, and consolation during the war years and the Great Depression.
Re:Cyclists tells the story of cycling's glories and also of its despairs, of how it only just avoided extinction in the motoring boom of the 1960s. And finally, at the dawn of the 21st century, it celebrates how cycling rose again - a little different, a lot more fashionable, but still about the same simple pleasures that it always has been: the wind in your face and the thrill of two-wheeled freedom.
Introduction: A Man Walks into a Bar
1 1817: The Big Bang
2 The 1860s: Parisian Perversions and the World's First Bicycle Race
3 The Dignity of the Victorian Clubmen
4 1870 – 1900: American Cycling and the Genius of Colonel Albert Pope
5 1874: The Honourable Ion Keith-Falconer
6 Safety Bicycles and Extreme Danger: Mile-a-Minute Murphy and the Lion's Den
7 The 1890s: The Great Society Cycling Craze
8 Twentieth-Century Racing and the Loneliness of the Time Triallists
9 1900 – 1920: Cycling and Moting
10 1920 – 1958: The Tourists
11 1942 – 1959: The British League of Racing Cyclists
12 1957: 'Most of Our People Have Never Had it so Good'
13 1960 – 1990: An Ugley Situation
14 1992 – 2016: The Life of Lottery
15 Towards a Cycling Tomorrow
Endnotes
Acknowledgements
Index
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Michael Hutchinson is a writer, a journalist, and a former professional cyclist. He has won multiple national titles in both Britain and Ireland, and has raced at the World Championships and the Commonwealth Games. He is Cycling Weekly's principle columnist, and is a regular broadcaster on cycling. Re:Cyclists is the follow-up to his critically acclaimed book Faster: The Obsession, Science and Luck behind the World's Fastest Cyclists and the award-winning The Hour: Sporting Immortality the Hard Way. He lives with far too many bicycles in Cambridgeshire and London.
@Doctor_Hutch